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This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Microsoft temporarily stopped accepting Bitcoin payments Software and hardware giant Microsoft halted Bitcoin payments this week, as first reported by Bleeping Computer, citing the “unstable” state of the cryptocurrency. When pressed, the company’s customer support revealed that Microsoft decided to stop accepting the cryptocurrency back in July 2017, due ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Facebook CEO studying cryptocurrencies in quest for decentralization Mark Zuckerberg, in what he called personal challenges for the year ahead, revealed that he is studying cryptocurrencies and encryption to improve the social networking service he co-founded. He noted that this year he is going to focus on “fixing important ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Bitcoin exchange executive kidnapped, found alive and safe three days later According to various reports, a 40-year-old analyst at cryptocurrency exchange EXMO, Pavel Lerner, was dragged into a black Mercedes-Benz by men wearing dark clothes and balaclavas in Kiev, Ukraine, after leaving his company’s offices on December 26. At ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Bitcoin community donates nearly $2 million to Andreas Antonopoulos following Roger Ver tiff The Bitcoin community recently sent nearly $2 million in donations to Andreas Antonopoulos, a community scholar and lecturer who’s authored several books including Mastering Bitcoin, following a tweet from prominent Bitcoin Cash supporter and Bitocin.com CEO ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: CBOE to launch Bitcoin futures on December 10 Last week, DeepDotWeb reported on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) receiving approval from the U.S: Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to trade Bitcoin futures on its platform. At the time, the date in which the regulated exchange would list Bitcoin ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Nasdaq to launch bitcoin futures by mid-2018 According to reports, Nasdaq Inc, the world’s second largest stock market, is set to enable bitcoin futures trading by mid-2018. The financial institution, along with major financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., is rushing to integrate the cryptocurrency given its recent all-time ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Mark Karpeles hints at MtGox revival through an ICO According to former MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles, the complexity of the company’s bankruptcy makes it hard for creditors to recover their losses, and a revival of the company may be the way to solve the problem. MtGox’s bankruptcy claims are ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: SegWit adoption set to increase as Blockchain wallet, Bitfinex add support SegWit activated on the Bitcoin network back in August and so far, various companies haven’t yet upgraded their systems to adopt it. Recently, Bitcoin’s biggest wallet provider, Blockchain, announced through a blog post that it will add full ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Bitcoin Gold will launch on November 12, following replay protection implementation The team behind the controversial Bitcoin Gold project recently announced that it will release a software client for the cryptocurrency on November 12, after being able to implement various new features to the cryptocurrency, in an attempt to ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments. New developments: CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, aims to launch Bitcoin futures This week, the CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives exchange, announced that it plans on launching Bitcoin futures during the fourth quarter of 2017. According to an announcement on the group’s website, the futures will be cash-settled ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Bitcoin Gold’s website hit with a DDoS attack after it separated from the Bitcoin blockchain This week, another hard fork created Bitcoin Gold (BTG) a new cryptocurrency that aims to solve Bitcoin’s mining problems by creating an ASIC-resilient mining ecosystem, where the gap between GPU/CPU and ASIC mining is ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Wikileaks founder thanked the U.S. government for the 50,000% ROI it had on Bitcoin Wikileaks founder Julian Assange recently published a tweet thanking the U.S. government for, starting in 2010, erecting an illegal banking blockade against the non-profit whistleblower organization that led companies such as PayPal and American Express ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Various companies are announcing their position on the SegWit2x hard fork Last week, DeepDotWeb covered Bitcoin.org’s plans to denounce SegWit2x supporting companies, who could be putting users at risk. Bitcoin.org’s list has been published, and it includes several well-known companies such as Blockchain.info, Xapo, Jaxx, Coinbase, and Circle. Now, ... Read More »

This week’s summary of various cryptocurrency news and developments: New developments: Bitcoin.org states it’ll denounce SegWit2x supporting companies This week, Bitcoin.org published a blog post in which it states that it will publicly denounce via a banner on their website companies that support the SegWit2x hard fork, and that are going to default to the Segwit2x (S2X) chain, putting users ... Read More »